Via HotAir:
the International Herald-Tribune and the New York Times confirm this, albeit inadvertently, in a profile of Obama’s closest political adviser. David Axelrod gave the order to launch the attack machine:
A glimpse of Axelrod’s day offers a look at how he spends his time.
He arrives at the White House shortly after 7 a.m., a torturously early hour for a man known during the campaign for sending messages until the small hours of the morning. A cup of Earl Grey tea is waiting for him — he hates the taste of coffee and recalls having only two cups in his life — as he walks into his first appointment of the day, a meeting in the office of Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff, who has been a friend for 25 years.
He attends the economic briefing in the Oval Office, where the latest news and grim statistics are relayed to the president by a battery of advisers. When the classified intelligence briefing begins, Axelrod leaves the room. Later, he and a speechwriter sit down with Obama to review the three-ring binder containing each speech or statement the president will make that day.
Often in the late afternoons, he walks to the Situation Room to attend some meetings of the National Security Council, stopping to grab a handful or two of the M&Ms that are in a large bowl outside the room.
He also helps decide which fights to pick and which ones to avoid, making him a leading voice in setting the political tone in Washington. The recent back-and-forth with Rush Limbaugh, for example, was explicitly authorized by Axelrod, who told aides that it was not a moment to sit quietly after Limbaugh said he hoped that Obama would “fail.”
We know who Obama’s Achilles heal is don’t we? If only that energy had been spent on translation and preparation.
Very, very sad. The POTUS, instead of focusing on his job, is duking it out with a talk show host. If the President was fulfilling his campaign promises (stop corruption, pork and earmarks, and business as usual) he wouldn’t need to care what a talk show host says. If the President was displaying real leadership, like talking up our economy instead of running it down, he wouldn’t need to care about a talk show host. If the President was doing even one positive critical thing, like seriously addressing the Energy essential to our economy and our national security, he wouldn’t need to care what a talk show host says.
Instead, the President is showing a lack of leadership, and an Achilles heel as wide as Al Gore’s carbon footprint. He’s down and dirty in the mud in a street fight with a talk show host.
Very, very sad.
And btw, this Axelrod is a Nimrod, if this issue is an indication of his acumen. This just lowers the President and elevates Limbaugh. It has had the opposite effect, as anyone could have told Nim, I mean, Axelrod. If Obama wants to succeed, and in a way that helps America succeed, he should fire them all and start over. Start over with a team that has integrity and character (pays their taxes), is c0mpetent, and has the best interest of America at heart.
There probably aren’t enough people like that in Washington D.C….
Why else dose the demacreeps want the UNFAIRNESS DOCTRINE PASSED so they can monitor everything we see and hear just like the 60s series THE OUTER LIMITS the same thing that NAZIS and COMMIES did
Dont you mean the
Dont you mean the REDHOUSE? with the HAMMER and PSCYCLE flying overhead